Leading up to the film's opening weekend, the station used animated graphics to explain why certain songs were played and linked to the "Get on Up" Fandango page.
The style evolved in a pre-filesharing era, with pioneers such as RP Boo struggling to get their music heard on weekend radio stations and in clubs.
KISS was born in October 1985, broadcasting 24/7 from a mast in Charlton, but soon disappeared from the airwaves following sustained DTI raids before re-emerging in March 1986 as a weekend-only station.
This Saturday and Sunday are also "Weird Field Station Weekend," with tours and demonstrations focusing on paleontological oddities.
The London weekend commercial TV station run by Lew Grade in 1962 was ATV London; he did not run its successor from 1968, London Weekend Television.
The ITV programme came about in 1962 when Lew Grade, then running the London weekend commercial TV station, wanted a six-week filler to plug a five-minute hole in his schedules.
Ms. Hyatt and her husband, Alan, who have a strong interest in Australian history, traveled more than two hours from their home in Megalong Valley in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales to spend the weekend at Q Station and take the two-hour historic tour.
His weekly one-hour show, "Only a Game," first aired in spring 1993 on WBUR in Boston and is now syndicated each weekend to 138 stations around the country.
"I love getting my hair cut in the Central Barber Shop and being able to park the car for free on weekends at Rye station and get to New York City in less than an hour," he added.
Mrs. Page, who, with her husband, Henry, the chef, opened the restaurant in 1997, suggests that we return for lunch, or on the weekends, when radio station 103.9 broadcasts live, or when the D.J. spins oldies, or for the live music.
